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  • Left to Our Owned Devices:Social media, isolation and Infinite Jest.

    This past summer, I quit social media and dived deeper into my reading practice by finishing Infinite Jest. It’s not uncommon to have David Foster Wallace’s massive tome unfinished, haunting hipsters from the shelf. I caught up to where I was and vowed to quit social media, write a blog, read the book and make

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  • Podcast with ADHD Coach, Ryan Mayer

    (Youtube embedded below –SPOTIFY – ) Recently… Actually, scratch it, over 120 days ago, I sat down in my basement to interview an individual I had seen in my algorithm a lot. ADHD Coach Ryan. I found his contact form and reached out and his administrative assistant helped me book the interview, it got moved

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  • My book is done.

    Hocus Focus: Coming of age with ADD and its medicines is published and available online. Here is a video I made about it.

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  • Watch the video of me reading this letter, or read it below. Dear Adderall, Sometimes I miss you. I think of the sleepless nights we shared in an impassioned fervor of madness on the edge of genius and insanity. Roaming the hills of my mind and creative force, we manipulated the material world vigorously and

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  • Podcast Appearance: The Holistic Psychiatrist with Dr. Alice Lee

    I had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Alice Lee, the holistic psychiatrist who I worked with during my withdrawl from Adderall. She is a great person with a great story and I am grateful she has taken the time to speak with me and she wrote a beautiful foreword for my book, Hocus Focus:

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  • Finishing

    Finishing

    I don’t know if it is fair to connect it to my ADHD, maybe it’s just me, but I have struggled with finishing for a long time. Starting projects is something I could do endlessly. I could come up with an intricate, complicated thing to build and work on it till four am with a

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  • As the primary decision makers of ourselves, it’s important that we exist in the gray area of this and that which is black and white. You will find many publications that advocate the use of Adderall for ADHD. Of course, the DSM–the instruction manual for how to operate for mental illnesses through contemporary pharmacological chemistry,

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  • What even is “Breathwork?”

    You are now breathing manually.  Notice your body taking in and releasing air-taking valuable oxygen, releasing it into your body, and pushing out carbon dioxide. A perfect system. Since we were born, we have done this, mostly automatically, without attention. Through meditation, we are often told to focus on our breath. It puts the mind

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  • For many of us, there is an option of becoming massively overwhelmed. It feels that sometimes the weight of the world can dog pile on my own problems and paralyze me from gong to the bank or the post office. With so many distractions surrounding us, it’s easy to lose focus and get lost in

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  • Day ones.

    Day ones.

    Well that was a day one of setting up a site. Day ones will always be “day ones.” They will always be looked back on. Day one. I remember the first day of my cross country bike trip.I remember the day I got married. Day one of my marriage.The day my son was born. Day

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